Twelve months ago, Masha Semeniuk was met with the sound of sirens. The 34-year-old had made her life in Kyiv.
Her friends, her family and her job were all in Ukraine's bustling capital. But on February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Masha's home city, and her journey to Manchester was weeks away.
She told the Manchester Evening News: "We were almost the first who understood that trouble was near, that war was here. I remember explosions all the time, alarms.
